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Opiate addicts. Do you smoke pot as well?

shady4091

shady4091

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I'd like to start by saying that I love weed. LOVE IT. That said, I've been a Poppy Seed Tea addict for about a year and a half now as well as a daily pot smoker for about four years off and on. Well I fancy myself as being very good at controlling my anxiety on weed (and psychedelics), but my addiction still gets on top of me sometimes if I'm too high. I'll start thinking about how fucked I am being addicted to this shit, blah blah blah and it's become increasingly hard to enjoy being high. So recently I've decided to try and embrace the anxiety and channel it to help myself quit.

I started tapering my doses a few weeks back and I already feel much more at ease while I'm stoned. Like I'm on my way to accomplishing something great. If I start to feel like I'm slipping, or craving a nice opiate high I just smoke a bit of pot and I immediately feel renewed will power. It's basically my love for weed, and not wanting my highs to be so anxiety-ridden anymore that's my driving force at the moment.

So I guess my question for you opiate addicts is, do you smoke pot? If so, does your addiction cause you a lot of anxiety while high? And have you ever tried using that anxiety to help yourself quit?
 
Yeah, I smoke pot sometimes but it tends to make me feel really shitty about myself, like my shortcomings are magnified to the point that I freak out almost. Not pleasant. Used to never have that problem with weed and then it just snuck up on me. Now I rarely smoke unless I'm alone and able to just drift off into my own head and not worry about judgments from others.

Sometimes a little hit of weed is perfect for taking the opiate high to the next level, more with pills than pods though. I'm a daily pod tea drinker, btw.
 
I can definitely attest, at the least, that when you're coming off of opiates/trying to taper, having some good bud by your side can be an ENORMOUS help. It takes my mind off a lot of the mental aspects of coming off of opiates. But, I've never been one to get paranoid/anxious from weed, it just relaxes me/calms me down too much. It also helps me not overdo the opiates, since it potentiates them SO freaking much. I've experienced thoughts similar to what you're talking about, not to the point where I'd say I've had anxiety over them though.
 
Ive always smoked pot the other drugs just came and went, but for coming off my addiction of those tasty little oxy30 blues, weed,sex,and benzos got me through that. ha.
 
I always smoked pot while on opiates and to tell the truth if it wasnt for weed and benzos I would have never of been able to switch from methadone to suboxone
 
Hell No!

I was so happy to get rid of pot when I discovered opiates I can't even tell you!

Seriously though, I used to LOVE pot, smoked it all the time and really enjoyed it. It did however over the years exacerbate my anxiety and when I discovered opiates I always took opiates instead of pot anytime I could.

Like any good and predictable opiate user I ended up an opiate addict and, well I still don't smoke pot, except for once when I was using Heroin and my h high was fading a bit. I got so paranoid and so angry at myself for getting so caught up in Heroin that I decided I was going to stick subs and try and get clean.

The weed made me feel guilty, it also gave me a perspective on how my daily habits had changed to where my life revolved around scoring Heroin and smoking it by myself all day.

I did get on subs and have stayed on them for the most part, a couple relapses but overall much better than I was.

I can't smoke pot anymore though, I smoked it every day for almost fifteen years and it just makes me panicky and paranoid. I wish I could just go back to pot and use it like I used to and enjoy it but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

Still as a general rule I like the opiate high much better than the weed high, weed gets in the way of my thoughts too much where opiates at the right dose are like the perfect anti depressant/mood enhancer for me.
 
smoking weed on H makes me nod too hard.
after becoming a full time junkie, smoking pot took a back seat and now i can't even bring myself to enjoy just getting stoned on green. H is way more mellow and weed gives me anxiety (which never used to happen before the opiates ruled).
i have plenty of friends who enjoy doing both at the same time though, but they were hard core stoners to begin with.
 
I smoked pot every day with my heavy opiate addiction for over 10 years.

I loved weed too and I didn't feel right without both for a long time.

I started methadone a couple years back and continued to smoke with it for the last 2 years. When I couldn't manage to keep my supply of done off the street and was too skinny to try to kick I had to enter a methadone clinic. They required me to stop everything else (except done) and go to meetings+group etc.....

I thought it would be impossible and scared me but it was the best thing that could happen to me. I could never start getting better while I was smoking. The fact is that if you really want to kick you can't keep going on with something else or you will never break the cycle of abuse.

I have found that I don't even miss the weed at all. I even talked myself into smoking once about a week after I started the clinic and it didn't even feel right anymore. I don't have any desire to self medicate now.

I realized that I couldn't try to control everything. You need a lot of help and support to seriously quit or you will relapse.

I'm not telling you what to do by any means as it would be pointless and I wish you the best of luck. I just know that if I tried to use weed as a crutch to stop like I did in the past I would just be right back in it within a month or 2....
 
yeah, i used to smoke pot. I will from time to time at a party or somthing, but not an everyday thing. I replaced it with morphine and oxy. I have not a huge habit, I just IV 30mg about 2-3 times a week and only once, i dont keep it going if ya know what i mean. Pot tends to make me feel slow, useles. the opiats let me get shit done around the house. However i do have medical reasons i'm perscribed, but lets face it i enjoy the high as well. Pot sucks!
 
As much as I love my opiates, I seem to be a little...different about how I behave with them. I take them pretty regularly but I don't ever take a whole lot, just enough to get a good high going on but usually not nodding -- I can't get shit done with a nod and I end up just doing fuck all and I feel like it's a waste of my drugs haha. I think this is why I tend to still smoke all the time; as I said previously, the combo is so strong that it means I can be much more conservative with each, and keep my tolerance low, and withdrawals easy.... easy enough that it's not a big deal if the scene dries up for a week or so. I try to keep the long term in mind, not just the immediate desire to get fucked up.

But, as some of you mentioned, I also have a few friends that have done the "Start doing opiates, stop smoking weed" transition... so, as with most answers here on Bluelight, your mileage will REALLY vary.
 
Being high on opaites...then smoking bud takes it to a whole new level. I can't function as well when I'm stoned but if i do a few 30's...then just take a few hits of bud...the increase in euphoria is insane. For those who normally get paranoid while stoned...try being high on opaites, the "not giving a fuck" feeling transfers over after you smoke some bud. Being ripped while on opaites...even if i think of things that would normally get me extremely paranoid, won't phase me the least bit.
 
yeah you guys are right about the increase in the high level when mixing, but then you cant function as well, i loose that "get-er-done" attitude the opiates give me. But if im just looking to mix it up, kick back, then yeah its crazy mixing. two tokes of high test and a 30 IV'd is awesome.
 
I've never been to big on weed. I used to smoke it when it was offered, maybe once a week or so. Now that I'm addicted to opiates I only smoke weed if I'm withdrawing. The reasons for this are that first, if I smoke weed and I do opiates the weed takes away from the opiates almost completely for me and so I personally think the weed ruins the opiate high. I also tend to do all my stash if I'm stoned cause I get more optimistic about getting more. Another thing thats probably placebo is that if I smoke weed and do opiates, my body seems to think I didn't do opiates and as soon as the opiates wear off I go into withdrawals much faster as though I didn't do them.

But, when I'm withdrawing weed is a godsend, helps me sleep a few hours which normally would be a few hours awake. And about 10% of the time it makes me forget opiates altogether and distracts me from withdrawal.

Edit: Oh and I'm hypersensitive to weed. If I take 2 hits from a normal bowl or anything I will not remember the whole day most of the time and I have like brain zaps and peripheral hallucinations. I need to smoke out of homemade things that allow me to use tiny amounts. I can get high off the weed you'd brush off the table after rolling a blunt and I've made a dime bag last months while smoking it every few days. So...my experiences on weed are much different than most I'd think.
 
Thanks for the replies and support. I highly agree that weed has a pretty extreme synergy with opiates. I usually can't even nod unless I get stoned, then I can barely keep my eyes open.

No more nodding for me though, weed right now is just keeping me in check. Takes my mind of wanting to do opiates, but I've still got a long ass way to go. I just made an actual taper schedule today that will last just under two months. I'm nervous lol but I don't want to let myself or the weed down, or it'll let me know through anxiety.
 
i smoke everyday. pot is my all time favorite drug. its always around and its cheap. its far from the best high but it compliments almost everything else and even by itself its relaxing.
 
K'd-OUT-in-AZ said:
Smoking pot greatly increases the high of opiates from my experience!
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By leaps and bounds. I loved a blunt after blowing 2 30s, the weed taste with the drip from the blues was like have a fine dinner in your mouth, it just made me a all around "feel good" person, nothing phased me in the least heh.
 
Interesting thread. I was a daily pot smoker for years until starting opiates. I find when I smoke

weed now that I get very introspective about my opiate addiction. Whenever I smoke I find that

I tell myself that sticking needles in my arm has got to end and go to sleep feeling like I turned

over a new leaf. Only to wake up the next morning right back at the spot
 
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